Sermons On The Second Readings
Fred Craddock tells the story of a young lady standing before a mirror and she doesn't like what she sees. She looks in the medicine cabinet and reaches for a prescription. She empties the bottle into her hand and is ready to take all of the pills and end the life that she feels is not worth living. As she raises the pills to her mouth, a thought comes to her mind, from where she knows not. That thought is, "He cares for you."
Days later in the counselor's office she details that experience and says again, "The words came to me as if from nothing. 'He cares for you.' "